Sentences with phrase «character as the novel»

Without spending as much time developing the character as the novel did, the movie's ending that doesn't feel quite as epic as it should.

«Resistance» has the same type of complex interplay between characters as that novel did.

Not exact matches

Whether through character descriptions straight out of a novel or his look at the way we all construct our own stories, Mulaney's writing stays sharp as ever.

The city is named after J. J. McAlester, who became the Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma and was immortalized as a character in the 1968 novel True Grit.

For much of his career, he wrote bitterly satirical novels about well - off Londoners; even when the prospect of nuclear catastrophe arises, as it does in London Fields (1989), Amis seems to treat «The Crisis,» the coming «horrorday,» primarily as a vehicle for revealing the largely unpleasant traits of his handful of main characters.

Twenty - five years ago, DeLillo stated his aspirations for novel - writing through the protagonist of Mao II (1991), himself a novelist: «A writer creates a character as a way to reveal consciousness, increase the flow of meaning.

The fact that a novel's narrator must speak as a god from outside the story has always vexed novelists, particularly when the narrator is also a human character in the story.

His novels often read as though they were stories stitched together, and they make grandiloquent spiritual claims which neither their characters nor plots always justify.

Lewis» most successful novel, I believe, is the first part of his science - fiction trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, in which a Cambridge don named Ransom is kidnapped by two diabolical characters, the scientist Weston and the entrepreneur Devine, and transported via rocket ship as a sacrificial victim to the inhabitants of another planet called Malacandra (Mars).12.

But our time, as Beardsiee admits, is not one of narrative order — our novels lack plots, resolutions, and developed characters.

In The Philosopher's Pupil (1983) a man's life is changed by his vision of a flying saucer; a key episode in The Good Apprentice turns on what appears to be the effects of a love potion; a young girl in The Green Knight exerts an involuntary telekinesis over the stones that she has collected in her room; in the same novel the goodness of a man named Peter Mir (Mir meaning, in Russian, both «world» and «peace,» as several characters note) seems to be contagious, bringing sweet dreams and love to those with whom he comes in contact.

The possibility of radically different behavior due to completely novel characters or circumstances is taken into account by the very fact that any predictions about the future are regarded as at best probable.

rather than viewing each individual character or incident as only an instance of some collectivity or trend, is able to see the specific, the novel... the way even the «typical» diverges from type... [and can] recognize the peculiar dialectic between continuity and discontinuity in tradition.

Time as perpetually perishing means the ruthless destruction of world subjects, character, and order in the service of novel subjects, character, and order.

In 1967 I saw such work as concerned with case studies» (later I realized I was dealing with religious autobiographies), not in order to draw conclusions but to understand how a person's destiny unfolds, much as the destiny of characters in our Western novels unfolds.

Somewhat like novels, the story or stories of scripture depict characters and personalities, such as «God» and «Christ.»

In Allan Gurganus's novel Plays Well with Others, his main character describes taking care of one friend after another as they succumbed to AIDS — describes the almost hydraulic outpouring of love it took to tend them.

The primary characteristics of any self - creative beings — and we must suppose that this holds pre-eminently for human beings — are freedom, transience, and novel purpose... The denial of rationality as the primary character of experience involves the denial of principles as external sources of order and thus entails the consequence that each aesthetic event will constitute its own source of order and novelty.

In 1999 Alan Moore created The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen which pulled characters from a number of classic (and public domain) novels and placed them together as a sort of super team (this innovative series was scrubbed into an abysmally average 2003 film).

These words are symbolic of the Yehudi's life and are the most fitting for its close; for of all of the characters in this novel, deeply religious though they are, it is only he who has declared God's oneness, only he who has refused to work for redemption with external means and who has refused to accept a division of the world between God and the devil or a redemption that is anything less than the redemption of all evil and the recognition of God as the only power in the universe.

England's most prestigious literary award» the Booker Prize» had been awarded to a work that made the following assertion on its inside cover: «This is a novel of such rare and wondrous storytelling that it may, as one character claims, make you believe in God.

Girard began in the early 1960s, with such works as Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, by explaining how triangular relations form among characters in fiction.

Sweet, gentle, mentally ill women turn up with alarming regularity as characters in my novels.

It is an historical novel, excellent in its plot and its delineation of the chief characters, probably written as an explanation of the festival of Purim.

As Temecula's most famous resident for 35 years and known to many locals as «Uncle Erle,» Gardner is widely recognized for creating the character in the murder mystery novels made famous in the «Perry Mason» television series from the 1950As Temecula's most famous resident for 35 years and known to many locals as «Uncle Erle,» Gardner is widely recognized for creating the character in the murder mystery novels made famous in the «Perry Mason» television series from the 1950as «Uncle Erle,» Gardner is widely recognized for creating the character in the murder mystery novels made famous in the «Perry Mason» television series from the 1950s.

Mysterious characters from the city surrounding the hospital will be crucial in determining the baby's fate, as will a workaholic British doctor with whom Mariam finds herself falling in love... Alice Allan's debut novel is an original, vivid and moving story about attachment and loss.

Russell Crowe named his son Tennyson (as in writer Alfred Tennyson), model Niki Taylor named her son Hunter (think gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson), and Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake named their son Silas (title character of George Eliot's novel Silas Marner).

Alaric has been seen as a character in several novels including one from Stephen King, as well as a character in the series The Vampire Diaries.

Of course, that you know the true character of a person, when in crisis, is as true now as it was in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the 1954 novel in which the best of British public school boys (metaphor for the best of western civilization) descended into feral brutes, just because they were marooned in a strange environment for a few days.

IN Douglas Adams's novel The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe, the character Arthur Dent is horrified when a cow - like creature is wheeled to the restaurant table, introduces itself as the dish of the day and proceeds to describe the cuts of meat that are available from its body.

The findings — gathered from just over 300 participants in three age groups averaging 8, 12 and 13 years old — have implications for marketers as well as parents navigating a world where children encounter cartoon characters in a variety of media, from books to graphic novels, TV shows, video games, movies and more.

Another option involves a multiple - universes model of cosmology in which you travel back in time to a different but closely parallel universe to our own, as portrayed in Michael Crichton's novel Timeline, where the characters journey to another universe's medieval Europe without worry of mucking up our own chronology.

Editor's note: Kim Stanley Robinson is a widely acclaimed author of novels with strong science and scientist characters including the Mars trilogy, Antarctica and The Years of Rice and Salt, and he has won a number of prestigious awards such as the Hugo, the Nebula and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.

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But those who see a transactional approach to coupling as something new and unseemly would do well to pick up a novel by Jane Austen, where characters are introduced alongside their incomes.

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Japanese eroge, also known as H - Light novels or hentai games, have their origins in the early 1980s, when Japanese companies introduced their own brands of What I expect from a dating sim game: Interesting and fun scenarios; Attractive female characters; What I got from a novel with dating sim in its title:

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Granted, these movies are based on superhero comics, which do this sort of character development a lot, with characters baldly stating what they're thinking or feeling because of the comparative struggle of comics to delve into their characters» heads, lacking consistent devices for inner monologues (as a more traditional novel would have) or the benefit of an actor's performance (as a movie or TV show would have).

The Hobbit concludes as it began: in a welter of continuous action, with characters who have become archetypes but seldom rise above that level, and with a host of ideas J.R.R. Tolkien didn't put into his short novel.

The Iranian characters form the film's weakest link, in my view, as they do in the novel.

The type of character I have long been waiting to see onscreen, he's both familiar and novel, and his presence gives way to moments heretofore unthinkable in mainstream cinema, like the museum scene, which would make Martinican poet Aimé Césaire proud, as it seems like the direct illustration of a paragraph from «Discourse on Colonialism.»

The screenplay, written by Riko Sakaguchi and Yonebayashi, is based on the 1971 children's novel The Little Broomstick by British author Mary Stewart, and the movie's story seems to exist in a unique place, with the characters appearing British but drawn in that specific style of Japanese animation, while the backdrops look as if they could be set in any place where there are fields and forests and farms and tiny villages down some dirt road.

Despite similarities as a vigilante creature of the night, however, the Shadow — a character that enjoyed its greatest success in radio after being created in pulp novels — lacks the visceral appeal of Batman and won't strike the same chord.

Critic Consensus: Alfonso Cuarón adapts Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel with a keen sense of magic realism, vividly recreating the world of childhood as seen through the characters.

John Huston's Moby Dick starts out introducing a main character, as the novel does, with the famous line «Call me Ishmael», and then doesn't touch on him any further and begins a tale about a whaling ship.

He changed the ethnicity of the lead female character in Leonard's novel from the white Jackie Burke to a black Jackie Brown which allowed him to cast Pam Grier and reference her blaxploitation films «Foxy Brown» and «Coffy» as well as, employing the use of Bobby Womack's «Across 110th Street».

As the model for Carl Zuckmayer's character Harras in the famous novel «The Devil «sGeneral», the fate of Ernst Udet lingered on in Germany's postwar memory.